Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Last Night's Roll Call Votes on the Car Wash Bill

A couple of observations on last night's 2 roll call votes on Diane Neighbors' motion to defeat the Car Wash Exemption Bill: all three of the at-Large candidates--Charlie Tygard, J.B. Loring, and Ronnie Greer--in the September 11 run-off election voted to table her motion and then voted against defeating the controversial bill.

That tells me that they are embedded in the pockets of developers and that they do not take the concerns of neighborhoods seriously. Do you really want to vote for candidates on September 11 who would vote to make it easier for car washes to be put in your neighborhood with no regard to neighborhood feedback about the development? If you are a developer who wants the absolute freedom to throw down anything in a neighborhood without any responsibility, then vote for Tygard, Loring, and Greer. If you believe that developers should be good neighbors (which includes fielding community feedback), then vote for anybody but Tygard, Loring, and Greer.
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Here is the roll call vote (17-17) on the motion to table Diane Neighbors' motion to disapprove (in "AYE," returning members' names bolded; Sept. 11 run-off members italicized):

AYE:

Buck Dozier
Jamie Isabel
Walter Hunt
Michael Craddock
Rip Ryman
Carl Burch
Harold White
J.B. Loring
Ronnie Greer
Ludye Wallace
Eric Crafton
Randy Foster
Jim Hodge
Parker Toler
Sam Coleman
Robert Duvall
Charlie Tygard

NO:

Diane Neighbors, Carolyn Baldwin Tucker, David Briley, Adam Dread, Brenda Gilmore, Pam Murray, Mike Jameson, Eric Cole, Jim Forkum, Anna Page (run-off), Ginger Pepper, Billy Joe Walls, Emily Evans, John Summers, Jim Shulman, Vivian Wilhoite, Lynn Williams

Tie-breaking "NO" vote cast by Howard Gentry.

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Here is the roll call vote (21-12) on Diane Neighbors' motion to defeat the Car Wash Exemption Bill:

AYE:

Neighbors, Tucker, Briley, Dread, Gilmore, Isabel, Murray, Jameson, Cole, Forkum, Page (run-off), Pepper, Walls, Evans, Summers, Shulman, Foster, Wilhoite, Coleman, Duvall (run-off; voted to table first), Williams

NO:

Buck Dozier
Walter Hunt
Michael Craddock
Rip Ryman
Carl Burch

Harold White
J.B. Loring
Ronnie Greer
Ludye Wallace
Jim Hodge
Parker Toler

Charlie Tygard

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